But critics warned that the United States was being drawn more deeply into a convoluted civil conflict in Colombia, a country with two leftist guerrilla armies fighting the government, right-wing paramilitary forces fighting the guerrillas, and civilians trapped in the middle.
History scholars might get a kick out of it, but Ms. Schwartz bombards the audience with so much convoluted and conflicting information that it's like being lectured to by a professor with untreated A.D.H.D.
Has that made it a messy, convoluted and conflicted ride?
The convoluted and conflicting messages that conservatives presented in debate over the stimulus package conveyed more than just confusion on their part.
But critics have warned that Washington was being pulled more deeply into a civil conflict so convoluted that two leftist guerrilla armies are fighting the government, right-wing paramilitary forces are fighting the guerrillas, guerrillas are providing paid protection to drug traffickers, and civilians are trapped in the middle.
Their unusual relationship with the American government reflects the Obama administration's constrained, at times convoluted policy toward Syria's raging conflict.
I narrated defeat because the very language of revolution was lost to us, replaced by a dangerous cocktail of nationalist, nativist, collectivist and post-colonialist language appropriated by both sides of the conflict and used to spin convoluted conspiracy theories and spread paranoia.
The conflict is rooted in the library's convoluted governance structure.
"The fish business is very complicated, very complicated," Dave says when the conversation turns to catch limits, size limits, quotas for different species in different jurisdictions, and the vagaries of a marketplace in which the law of supply and demand regularly conflicts with conservation laws that often strike commercial fishermen as impractical and convoluted.
